The Truth About Benghazi

As Americans, we are steeled to certain political realities.  Of course, by "steeled," I mean, "can ignore with unholy resolve."  The Benghazi crisis is no different.  The death of 4 Americans, including a sitting ambassador is no small affair, and certainly a great loss.  But, the armed forces and consular service serve gladly under the threat of harm.  But, the fault in Benghazi lies not with the President or the opposition in Washington.
First and foremost, the fault lied with the butchers and savages who perpetrated this cowardly and detestable act.  The real effort should be aimed at those who  shot first and asked no questions at all.  They glorify violence and seek anarchy and the destruction of their own nation-yet they vilify the US as aggressors, servants of a Zionist agenda and blasphemers of Allah, Muhammed  and Islam.
Second, the blame for this whole sad and sorry mess must be placed at the feet of those who seek to protect the President from any culpability.  The sheer idiocy of this can be attributed to the following group of select charlatans...

1. The American media.  Their willingness to protect President Obama is nauseating.  There was a time when the press left the President and his family alone.  Mamie Eisenhower's alcoholism and President Kennedy's infidelity were tributes to this grudging restraint.  Watergate changed all that.  The President was now accountable, and every President from Nixon to Carter to Reagan to Clinton to Bush has been compelled to stand in the raw judgement of a media apparatus and know that they are on their own in regards to the American public.  For some lunatic reason, President Obama is exempt from this.  It defies logic.  In Suicide of the West, author James Burnham offered that the dangers inherent in liberalism are fueled by the omnipresence of the most dangerous of human emotions...guilt.  From guilt comes overcompensation-from overcompensation come more inequality, but to a different group.  For more information on this, see Federalist 10, the Declaration of Independence, the works of James Wilson and the Speeches of Abraham Lincoln.  
2. The Presidents party and the political elements that seek to shield him on utterly ridiculous reasoning that several embassy attacks during the Bush presidency were not held under such scrutiny.  Ergo, President Obama is exempt, too.  Seriously?  It would be an unholy sin to pay this stupidity any further lip service.
3. The American public who, for reasons of apathy and disinterest, excuse the President from any culpability.  If the people don't care, why should anyone else?  Painful simplicity....

There was a time when Presidents were statesmen, not politicians.  Men like Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, 2 Roosevelt's, Wilson, Kennedy and Reagan..  It seems that all died...probably with JFK.  Watergate, it seems,  was far more costly than history tells..  In choosing to hold the president accountable, we opened ourselves to the possibility that we could withhold that same judgement.

The ultimate truth about Benghazi is that, no matter how costly it was in lives, those lives will never be worth the price of a Presidency.  

That may seem cynical. But, the decay of the moral fabric in American politics has weakened the foundations of American political and social life.  Are we too far gone?  

Certainly not.  Never underestimate the power and virtue that can be exhibited by the American people.  It is this power that compelled our collective drive to defeat the Nazi's, the Soviets and the Saddam Hussein's of the world.  Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were events that crystalized the public under the banner of a firm reliance in moral rightness...not indignant revenge.  Upon learning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, British Prime Minister Churchill telephoned President Roosevelt and declared that if the US declared war on Japan, a British declaration would follow "within the hour."  The Prime Minister made the following observation in his History of the Second World War; the only work of history to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

“I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.” 

The world doesn't see us in that light any longer.  To be sure, that is just as much the world's fault as ours.  But we've lost our way.  Just how morally and politically lost we are will be told by the outcome of Benghazi.  

In my most optimistic smiley face, I can truthfully declare that it doesn't look good